Associate Health Minister and Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour said the latest health data breach “will be distressing for people”. In a statement, MediMap director Geoffrey Sayer confirmed “unauthorised activity” caused some patients’ demographic records to be incorrectly changed. A suspected medication platform hack has caused live patients to be labelled as dead, and others’ names were changed to “Charlie Kirk”. “MediMap is currently experiencing an issue raised Sunday, February 22 ... Due to this, MediMap is currently unavailable,” the message said. “More patients were marked as deceased, names appeared to have been changed to Charlie Kirk, ages were altered, and some patients were assigned to different facilities,” the nurse told Stuff.

Source: Stuff February 24, 2026 01:13 UTC